Carpe Diem
Being the 'sua gu' that I sometimes can be, I'd just discovered last night that aside from audio CDs, one can borrow DVDs from the Esplanade Library as well. Ecstatic and quite overcome with excitement, I'd proceeded to their vast collection of DVDs with Xiu Xian (XX) and Jon. After awhile, I picked out 2 movies, "Dead Poets Society" and "Music and Lyrics".
Why did I choose those two movies? Well, while reading fanfiction one fine day, I'd came across the phrase "Carpe diem", and a fellow reviewer asked if the author got it from "Dead Poets Society". A lover of poetry, I was intrigued by the title and it also kinda rang a bell in my head. So I googled it and thought it seemed like a really good movie. So I wanted to watch it. And as for "Music and Lyrics", I'd always wanted to watch it ever since I heard the song "Way Back Into Love".
"Music and Lyrics" was all right. It was an enjoyable light-hearted sort of movie, but nothing very impressionable or impactful. Except that I absolutely adore Hugh Grant's British accent!
Okay Hugh Grant and British accents aside, I went on to watch "Dead Poets Society". It is about an English Teacher, Mr John Keating, who has rather unorthodox teaching methods, at this really prestigious, conservative and expensive prep school for boys, Welton Academy. So through his very interesting teaching methods, Mr Keating strives to bring across the message to break out of a life of rigid conformity. And indeed, he does change the lives of his students. The final scene of the movie was so poignant it brought tears to my eyes. I re-winded and re-watched the scene no less than 5 times. After which I decided to climb atop my coffee table and take a look around my living room (um, only those who've watched the movie would actually understand this). It was a really really touching movie. Not to mention Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke were extremely cute!
"Oh Captain, my Captain!"
I had a lot of fun listening to the boys recite poetry. There was a scene where one of the boys was trying to impress girls with Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, when he turned to another girl and was about to start off with another poem, somehow, I'd guessed that he was gonna recite Lord Byron's "She Walks In Beauty". AND I WAS RIGHT! For the next words out of his mouth were "She walks in beauty like the night, of cloudless climes and starry skies".
Needless to say, I had a VERY satisfying and rather insane couch-pounding moment. *laughs*
Well, CARPE DIEM!!
Why did I choose those two movies? Well, while reading fanfiction one fine day, I'd came across the phrase "Carpe diem", and a fellow reviewer asked if the author got it from "Dead Poets Society". A lover of poetry, I was intrigued by the title and it also kinda rang a bell in my head. So I googled it and thought it seemed like a really good movie. So I wanted to watch it. And as for "Music and Lyrics", I'd always wanted to watch it ever since I heard the song "Way Back Into Love".
"Music and Lyrics" was all right. It was an enjoyable light-hearted sort of movie, but nothing very impressionable or impactful. Except that I absolutely adore Hugh Grant's British accent!
Okay Hugh Grant and British accents aside, I went on to watch "Dead Poets Society". It is about an English Teacher, Mr John Keating, who has rather unorthodox teaching methods, at this really prestigious, conservative and expensive prep school for boys, Welton Academy. So through his very interesting teaching methods, Mr Keating strives to bring across the message to break out of a life of rigid conformity. And indeed, he does change the lives of his students. The final scene of the movie was so poignant it brought tears to my eyes. I re-winded and re-watched the scene no less than 5 times. After which I decided to climb atop my coffee table and take a look around my living room (um, only those who've watched the movie would actually understand this). It was a really really touching movie. Not to mention Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke were extremely cute!
"Oh Captain, my Captain!"
I had a lot of fun listening to the boys recite poetry. There was a scene where one of the boys was trying to impress girls with Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, when he turned to another girl and was about to start off with another poem, somehow, I'd guessed that he was gonna recite Lord Byron's "She Walks In Beauty". AND I WAS RIGHT! For the next words out of his mouth were "She walks in beauty like the night, of cloudless climes and starry skies".
Needless to say, I had a VERY satisfying and rather insane couch-pounding moment. *laughs*
Well, CARPE DIEM!!
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